Bug#413642: debian-installer-manual: After debootstrap, /dev is too minimal to mount partitions

[Alan Jenkins]

Hi

I think someone could close this bug now.  The installer manual does now 
outline the process of creating device nodes with MAKEDEV.


D.3.4.1. Create device files 
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/apds03.html.en#idp8293600


(It also suggests bind-mounting /dev instead, which is what I would try 
nowadays.)


Alan


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Bug#413642: debian-installer-manual: After debootstrap, /dev is too minimal to mount partitions

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: debian-installer-manual
Severity: normal

Hi !

Following Appendix D.3 on installing Debian from another Unix system,
I think that an additionnal step must be added after editing
/etc/fstab : creation of device nodes.

You may get errors about inexisting special devices:
mount: special device /dev/sda13 does not exist
mount: special device /dev/sda12 does not exist
mount: special device /dev/sda11 does not exist
mount: special device /dev/sda9 does not exist

In this case, use the following commands:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV sd

Or if you try to install on IDE disks:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV hd

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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